Chapter 262 Amber

The official business in Taipingzhou begins.

Twenty thousand laborers from other states rushed over to eat and have enough money to get. The laborers who came were more excited and were not repulsive.

A few adults and teenagers over fifteen participated.

More than 37,000 people, a total of 31,000 people squeezed in.

But there is not much real labor. Many elderly people take care of chores, and some women and teenagers' labor is very suspicious. It is not as hard as Zheng Lang imagined that the Song people could endure hardships. A load of mud was more than 100 kilograms, and normal labor was like picking and playing. Some were very strong and said that they could carry six stones. However, women and teenagers obviously did not do it.

Zheng Lang only arranged 15,000 local indigenous people, and the labor was enough, but the enthusiasm of the people was unprecedentedly high. The people's delighted most were those big households. It was good to pick up the market, and there were mulberry and hemp and food, and the housing prices in the city were also available.

As soon as construction started, the highest land price rose to nearly 100 mu.

There are really many big players who have made a fortune.

Some people are in winter and are greedy for wages, but they squeezed in a while, which is even more labor than last year. At the highest, it reaches 25,000 people, and at the lowest.

There are many people and progress quickly, but there are many disadvantages.

The food consumed every day is 1,000 stones, and you can’t just eat. There are some dishes for serving rice, pickles, vegetables, a small amount of fish, diesel, salt and vinegar, hot ginger soup for keeping cold, medicinal materials, and work sheds, and money is used as if running water.

The management is a bit chaotic. Fortunately, I have accumulated some experience last year. Some people have managed it last year. After a little training, they can take it out again and let them manage it on their behalf.

There are still chaos, so Zheng Lang had to stay on the dike again, and he was also doing his best to give the people some confidence and take the lead. It was not last year. This year, Jiuwei was spread all over the three counties in the prefecture and the three counties, and it was the same wherever he stayed.

But the worst thing happened.

Because migrant workers who came from other places were unfamiliar with and inconvenient to manage, Zheng Lang's approach was very simple. He divided the points and distributed them according to the workload. How many projects and labor are there? Let them coordinate on their own.

It is also an open management method.

It was done successfully on this.

You are not diligent, and I have been doing things for twenty days for fifteen days, so I am not in a hurry. Anyway, there are more people than I imagined, so I can only get a salary of fifteen days, finish ten days, rest for five days, and also pay a salary of fifteen days. And Zheng Lang has good credit, fair distribution, and... Ask the ghost!

Ghosts believe him, let alone humans!

But there are problems with internal labor, and the victims are still the victims.

I feel depressed and my labor is of varying quality and cannot be distributed according to my workload. This is not very fair to the victims. On the one hand, I use labor for relief and on the other hand, I give them an adaptable environment.

But this approach is wrong.

Most people are very hardworking, but there are a few of them that are still very bad.

Most of the refugees are really out of reach, and a few people are afraid of heavy weight. They have encountered opportunities many times in the past year, either as tenant farmers or as employers. They think that the work is heavy, the treatment is light, and they are unwilling to do it, and they keep wandering.

When we arrived in Taipingzhou, we knew that we could not be like before. However, Zheng Lang's approach allowed them to see loopholes. Some people carried two hundred loads of soil a day and one hundred loads of soil by themselves, but it was the same work. Gradually, they carried fifty loads and forty loads.

There were not many people at first, but just like an infectious disease, it became more and more severe, and some of the indigenous people became lazy.

Zheng Lang also took some measures, such as delaying, not only confrontation, but also letting the victims recognize the facts. In order to dispel these refugees, officials in the north talk nonsense, but not so. For example, they deliberately silently regard dozens of them making trouble and deal with them harshly. For example, they let the five thousand households get caught in the middle, they are vested interests, and they are very concerned and take the lead. But they have no supervision power, and it is not enough for one or two people, they are all fourth or fifth households, and they can't say anything to others. Gradually, there are more and they can't stand it anymore, so they report to Zheng Lang.

The problem was very serious, so Zheng Lang once again calculated the workload by project quantity, and ordered them to choose the leader and supervise the worker. Women with good performance can record eight divisions of labor. The masters do not perform well, and they can also record six divisions of labor, three divisions of labor, and one division of labor. If the indigenous people are particularly poor, they will be expelled and avoid wasting food. The disaster victims will follow him, but if they have any words, the government will only provide a small amount of funding next year, and they will maintain the food, farm tools, daily necessities, and even plowing oxen after the autumn. They will all rely on the salary for this work.

You are allowed to stay away from working all day and sleep until the beginning of next spring. Some eat and drink, but after that, even if you use your hands to rake the mud, no one will ask about it. If you don’t accept it, you are the one you choose and others will obey. Why don’t you accept it?

Wang Anshi said: "This method is very wonderful."

"Not wonderful. This method has touched the end of the Legalists' way, and Confucianism will be governed in the long run. What is Confucianism? The sage inside and the king outside, benevolence is based on righteousness and righteousness is the integrity." But after saying that, Zheng Lang's expression was not very good. Confucianism said so, and Confucianism is also the state religion of China. What is the situation? The king inside and the sage outside! The sage inside and the sage are based on righteousness and benevolence as the integrity! The benevolent loves people and the sage to the people have become a powerful weapon and a false slogan for a few people to deceive the foolish people. Why do you need to take the system into consideration? As long as you truly become a sage inside and the king outside, benevolence is based on righteousness, love people and the people, and be at peace with the people, the country's life is too far away for a thousand years, and it will not be impossible for a 500 and 600 years!

The common people are always straw dogs.

Putting aside this idea, he said: "Therefore, the Doctrine of the Mean is mostly about virtue, but the Doctrine of the Mean is based on the three parts and the neutrality is the origin. The descendants of the Master saw that the Master mentioned the Doctrine of the Mean many times, so they wrote "Doctrine of the Mean". Only by talking about virtue can it be explained clearly. Therefore, the Doctrine of the Mean was written very thinly in the future, which often makes people confused. Virtue is the basis, profit is the duty, and virtue and benefit are the perfect branch system of Doctrine of the Mean."

Not only is the centralization and harmony of Deli, but also various other aspects.

"But it's good, this allows us to better understand the human heart and human nature. Whether it is the country, administration, construction, war, crime, theory, industry and commerce, agriculture, they are all based on people. If you want to know people, you must know people's hearts and human nature. If you don't know people's hearts and human nature, you cannot practice the mean."

"Here." The four teenagers nodded fiercely.

Human nature occupies an important position in Confucianism. The unity of man and nature is vague. Mencius directly said that human nature is good, Xunzi said that human nature is evil, and even Buddhists came to join in the fun, saying that human nature is white paper, and acquired colors are all kinds of colors. Zheng Lang has different views on human nature. He believes that people have a complex inheritance of human nature throughout their lives, with a strong concept of human nature for individual survival and a moral constraint for overall survival. Just like heaven and earth are composed of yin and yang, they are mutually reborn. The starting line and wisdom are different from birth, but the acquired influence is more important. The combination of the two is the real reason for a person's good deeds.

This view of human nature is closer to reality and perfection.

Since coming to Taipingzhou, nearly a year and a half have passed in the blink of an eye, many things have happened, with good sides and bad sides, which have inspired them and can better understand what Zheng Lang said about human nature.

Although he is still young, if Sima Guang and Lu Gong are now released directly, he may be able to be a qualified county magistrate.

It is also what Lu Yijian wants to see the most, but his political views and different ideas, his third son is becoming more and more promising, but he also slid towards the place he least wants to see.

After saying this, the word "口" began to be formally compiled.

Without writing an article for it immediately, we will first sort out all the relevant chapters and sentences written by various Confucian masters of the previous generation. This will be used as basis and argumentation. At the same time, during the collation process, we will absorb the thoughts of our predecessors and further reflect on our own thoughts.

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The biggest advantage of asking a ghost is not to ask the truth of the case. Ding Laosan's death is an episode. Zheng Lang didn't know it in advance, otherwise it would be impossible to sit idly by and watch Ding Laosan be killed. The biggest advantage is that it is a kind of convincing and great help to Quanwei.

Otherwise, with so many people and few officials in their hands, there would be a lot of trouble.

At least all the ghosts believed it, and there were some more difficult things that dared not cause trouble.

Long embankments gradually rose from the flat land, and winter also reached the depths, and a light snow fell. Like the small bridge houses in the south of the Yangtze River, it fell very well and melted when it landed. Only in some corners can you see a beautiful figure, curling up your beautiful figure shyly.

A small boat found Zheng Lang, Shi Congguang and his wife jumped off the boat and Wei Shiniang.

Wei Shiniang said, "Zhengzhou, do you want to thank my family?"

Aunt Wei was so anxious that she wanted to cover her mouth. She was not allowed to say anything before it was done.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "No, on the contrary, your family should thank me when it comes next year. I am a person who doesn't like to get cheap."

"Next year," Wei Shiniang blinked her big eyes in confusion. She couldn't figure it out, but the reason she couldn't figure it out was handed over in a small bag among her and said, "This is what my family has collected for you."

Zheng Lang opened it and saw some things, that is, frostings produced in various places.

The frosting is not white sugar, but rock sugar, but not rock sugar later. The current sugar is not the later sugar. First peel it, pound out the sugar juice with a grind, steam it thoroughly in a steamer, take all the sugar water, then put it into a kettle to fry, and still steam it. This is the rough process of making sugar. After the sugar water is squeezed, add raw water and re-squeeze it, which can be used as sour vinegar, which is a by-product of making sugar.

Put the steamed sugar water into a jar to make it dry the remaining water naturally and produce crystallization. This is the frosting. The color of a jar is different. The stacked rockery is the top, the branches are followed, the small pieces are added together, and the sand feet are lower. Or purple is the top, dark amber is followed, and light yellow is the bottom. The sizes are different, and there are a few taels, and the larger ones are nearly thirty kilograms per piece.

However, it took a long time, and it took one and a half years to go from the tiller to the finished product to the earliest, and nearly two years later.

It also requires manual operation. Large jars are stored in areas where frosting is produced. The wealthy families only own dozens of jars, while small families only have one or two jars, and there is no place to store so many jars. Although the profit is high, the cost is high. Either they make sugar, but the price is low. It is unlikely to support 30,000 to 40,000 people.

So when you hear the word sugarcane, including Zhao Zhen, I don’t know what medicine is sold in Zheng Lang’s gourd. You raise not one hundred people, two hundred people, but tens of thousands of people. In the past two years, they must also have to live in, wear warm clothes and eat full.

I couldn't figure it out, so I had to ask, including asking ghosts.

But the person hasn't come yet.

Pick up the crystal clear frostings, and in the sun, the amber frostings shine with a soft luster, just like amethyst.

I put it in my mouth and tasted it. The production cost is very high and the cycle is long, but the taste is no less than the white rock sugar that came later.

Wei Shiniang said again: "It's so expensive."

Although the profit is great, the government has to collect taxes and pay tribute. Therefore, there are not many producers, and there are no more than 5,000 households across the country. Some places are forced by tribute and tax offices, so they have to open a sugar shop to sell sugar, not candy, but syrup. The white syrup is unsteamed and has a slightly lighter sweetness, which is called raw sugar. Light red is steamed once, and dark red is syrup that has been steamed twice, which is called cooked sugar. The deeper the price, the more expensive it is, and the sweeter it is. This is very common. Taipingzhou is not the main source of sugarcane. There is also a sugar shop in the city of the state.

Therefore, frosting is very expensive, and even the Zheng family, several concubines dare not eat frosting as snacks.

Zheng Lang didn't say anything, looked at Shi Congguang and said, "Have you been transported?"

“All of it.”

"Okay, let's go and take a look."

After boarding the boat and looking at the long embankments, Zheng Lang also felt accomplished. Suddenly he thought of something and said to the four teenagers: "Tell me, what is the soil coming from the water?"

"Teacher!" Wang Anshi said.

"If you can be righteous, you can be a king. If you are strong, you can respond to it and act in danger and follow it. If you use this to poison the world and the people follow it, what is the fault of auspiciousness? Is the imagery not the image?"

If you can lead everyone to justice, you can be a king (or it can also refer to accomplishing great things). The nine-two yang lines are in the middle, and there are six-five yin lines at the top and bottom. You can use righteous troops to follow the people's hearts (or it can also refer to doing great things). Although it is harmful to the world, the people are willing to follow it, and there will be no disaster.

This is the general explanation of the teacher's hexagram.

It is indeed very similar to Zheng Langquanxu's actions.

"It's just the sixth day of the first lunar month. The army came out to use laws to judge and criticize (we must strictly enforce military discipline when going out, otherwise we will not be able to fight a good battle). Isn't it very similar?"

"Elephant," all four teenagers surrounded him excitedly.

Before Zheng Lang surrounded the emirates, he first dealt with the Zhang family's six tigers and Linjiang Temple, and then won the hearts of the people and used both kindness and power, which is also a kind of strict military discipline.

Then he discussed it again. The second line is that the commander army enforces the law fairly and has good luck and no danger, so the king praised it many times. It is like this spring, many people in the court boasted. By the third line, the army was about to go out, and there was a possibility of success, but there was also the possibility of a carriage defeat and returning, which was dangerous. The situation was similar when the disaster arrived. The fourth line is that the partial army was stationed on the left side, and there was no disaster. When the disaster came, the disaster had to use strange moves to assist the righteous. Whether there was any disaster had not been effective yet.

"Doctor Zheng, then after this hexagram was revealed, did you reach the Bi hexagram?" Yan Rong asked.

"Yes, after such great development, almost all the potential of Taipingzhou has been dug out, taxation will increase year by year, people will reproduce, and per capita income will decline again. Therefore, it will become a stingy outside, a stingy outside, and a stingy inside, and a stingy inside (the teacher is above Kun, Kan is above Kan, Kun is below Kun, Kun is earth, mother, cloth, cauldron, stingy, even, son, cow, big carriage, literary, crowd, handle, Kan is water, ditch, hidden, perverted, arch, worry, heart disease, Tong, moon, thief, lower head, etc.), we must work together, otherwise the people of Taipingzhou will suffer disaster. But we must succeed in the translation of the hexagram in Taipingzhou, otherwise a new magistrate will be introduced, and this hexagram will completely disappear, and there will be no Bi hexagram below."

"It's very reasonable," Yan Rong shouted in surprise, and said, "So can you explain all the problems with ease?"

"Yi only has sixty-four hexagrams. Although it is very practical, it cannot fully explain all the problems. But if most problems are wisdom enough, they can be explained by Yi. For example, if I go to the court, what is it?"

"Jin." Wang Anshi said again.

The Song Dynasty implemented civil governance internally, which was like being a mother or a literary man. It was bullied by Khitan outside and a soldier, so it was Li, Li and Kun at the top was the Jin hexagram.

"Do you think my dynasty has a peaceful hexagram like Jin?"

“That’s…”
To be continued...